The direction we're headed, it's a perpetual stone age until humanity is a footnote in some spacefaring civilization's notes about this star system.
All the surface metals have been mined. The easily-accessible stored energy (coal, shallow oil) is gone. If there's a collapse, we can't bootstrap ourselves up a second time. We're done, nuclear fallout or no.
Whilst I would like it if we could go back to the 1950's, I'll take going back to the 90's over proceeding on the current trajectory.
The '80s, but minus the junk-bond bullshit, would be nice.
I'll settle for nothing less than la belle epoque.
The direction we're headed, it's a perpetual stone age until humanity is a footnote in some spacefaring civilization's notes about this star system.
All the surface metals have been mined. The easily-accessible stored energy (coal, shallow oil) is gone. If there's a collapse, we can't bootstrap ourselves up a second time. We're done, nuclear fallout or no.